It might also prove difficult to find any records
relating to such villages. A possible other direction
to take would be villages like Ripley in Yorkshire
where the old church was abandoned because of its
unsafe foundations; a new church was built nearby and
a number of artefacts transferred to it from the
previous church.
Cheers
Rob
--- Tom Izbicki <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > M.W.
Beresford, Deserted English Villages
> (Gloucester, 1989).
> I wonder whether many remained deserted long? More
> common, from
> Beresford's lecture at Leeds 1998, seems to have
> been later abandonment
> because of enclosures.
>
> Tom Izbicki
>
> At 02:48 PM 2/8/2001 +0000, you wrote:
> >As has already been stated, I don't believe that
> deconsecrations
> >could have been very common during the middle ages,
> but perhaps they
> >became necessary in the wake of the Black Death,
> when whole villages
> >were apparently abandoned. I have vague
> recollections of a book on
> >abandoned English villages but don't remember the
> title.
> >Cheers,
> >Jim Bugslag
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